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No. 236,317. Patented Jan. 4,1881.d

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LEMUEL P. FAUGHT, OF FOXBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO WILLIAM T. COOK, OF SAME PLACE.

MANILA, STRAW, AND OTHER PLAITED HATS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 236,31*?,-dated January 4, 1881.

Application filed December 1, 1880.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEMUEL I. FAUGHT, of Foxborough, in the county of Norfolk and State of ll/Iassachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Manila, Straw, and other Platted Hats, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to the manufacture of Manila and other straw and plaited hats which have their brims made of two thicknesses of material; and it consists in a novel formation of the edge of the brim from the material itselfof which the brim is made, whereby a rounded, rolled, and stiffened edge is secured to the brim, all-substantially as hereinafter described.

In the accompanying plate of drawings, Figure l is a side view and partial section of a hat having the edge of its brimv rounded, rolled, and` stiffened in accordance with this invention; Fig. 2, a detail sectional View across the edge of the hat brim shown in Fig. 1, but enlarged. Figs. 3 to 13, inclusive, are similar sectional views to Fig. 2, but illustrating the invention in modifications, all of which will hereinafter fully appear'.

In the drawings, A represents the body or crown of a Manila straw hat, and B the brim, having two thicknesses, a and b, both continuations ofthe hat body or crown ,fand g, the edge portions of the brim-thicknesses 0L and b. One edge portion passes around the other cd ge portion, and that edge portion which is so surrounded is doubled and folded upon itself in a manner and in a suitable number of thicknesses to give to the brim at the-edge thereof a rounded and rolled shape, and make thereby a stiffened and finished edge tothe brim of the hat without the use of independent and separate material, as has heretofore been the practice.

The folding and doubling of the brim as above described is shown in the various views at O, and in some cases it is made from the one edge portion, f, as shownin Figs. 1, 2, 3,

6, 7, 10, and l1, and in other instances from the other edge portion,g, as shown in Figs. 4, 5, S, 9, 12, and 13, the result being the same (No model.)

in either case. The edge portion which surrounds the doubled or folded edge portion above described is doubled upon itself, so as to bring its edge under cover, as is shown in Figs. 1 to 9, inclusive. This doubling of it may be dispensed with, as it may be folded around the edge singly, as shown in Figs. 10, 11, 12, and 13; but it is preferable to double or fold it upon itself, as above described, for obvious reasons, among them that it gives a clean, smooth, and unragged edge, as it conceals the loose ends ofthe straw strands.

The parts of the brim-edge, folded and arranged together as above described, may be secured in such shape by stitches, as shown at l, or in any other suitable way, and after being so secured the brim-edge is then pressed in any suitable manner, and its several thicknesses are thus shaped together and brought to an even, smooth, and rounded form.

I am aware that the turning or doubling of the edge or edges of the thicknesses of the brim is not new, being already patented; but

1. A Manila or other straw hat having its brim made in two thicknesses, a band such thicknesses folded and doubled and the one surrounded by the other, all so as to give a rounded and stiffened rolled edge to the brim by and from the material itself' of which the brim is composed, substantially as described, for thepurpose specified.

2. A Manila or other straw hat having its brim made in two thicknesses, a b, one of such thicknesses beingfolded and doubled and surrounded by the other, all so as to give a rounded and stiti'ened rolled edge to the brim by and from the material itself of which the brim is composed, substantially as described, for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LEMUEL P. FAUGHT.

Witnesses:

EDWIN W. BROWN, W. S. BnLLows. 

